July 1998 – someone tells him about the LFC email mailing list. Oldham has never heard of it

Aug 1998 – Oldham starts his own LFC email mailing list

Sep 1998 – Colin Seaman (the eventual designer and co-founder of KT) posts this message in the Usenet group: “LFC Fans/Backers wanted to make the Ultimate LFC site”. This post will result in the creation of KT

Oct 1998 – begins procedures to start up his own LFC newsgroup on Usenet

Nov 1998 – Oldham’s new LFC newsgroup launched. Begins to spam the old LFC newsgroup with false messages claiming (incorrectly) that the old group is about to be discontinued. These lies are effective in moving posters over to his new group